Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-07-14


event, addressing the bridegroom
said: "Well, you have got the pick of
the batch" The countenances of the
four unmarried ones may be imagined.
Chambers Journal.
EATING ON BOARD SHIP.
How Many Provisions 1t Takes to stock
n Modern Ocean Steamer.
That "human nature is curious
thing, and there is plenty of it," is
probably better exemplified on board
great ocean steamship than in any
other place in the world. There is to
be found motley assemblage of men,
women and children, sometimes num-
bering upwards of 1000 souls-not
packed like herrings in barrel, mo-
tionless and compressed, but as bees
in hive, active and swarming about
every hour in the day. Their lives are
linked together and subject to one
common destiny for the time being,
and the knowledge of this fact. as well
as the circumscribed nature of the im-
mediate surroundings, promotes So
ciability and good fellowship, and in
duces passengers to take an unusual
interest in their neighbors.
The vast majority of the travelling
public accept with complacency, and
quite as a matter of course, the refine
ments and conveniences to be found on
board the ocean steamers OF to-day.
They fail to grasp the full extent OF
the advancement which has taken
place within the last half century, and
they are apt to overlook the intricacies
of the human mechanism which has
to be constantly but quietly kept in
motion for the attainment of order,
regularity and discipline. They pos
sess no intelligent conception of the
vastness and variety of the provision
ing necessary for the proper mainte-
nance of the crowds carried in our
modern floating hotels; nor have they
the slightest ideas of the quantities of
fuel and ships stores generally alb
sorbed by these Unsuitable leviathans.
The Britannia, built in 1889, took
600 tons of coal leaving Liverpool on
her outward voyage. She burned
forty-four tons per day, while her
steam pressure was nine pounds and
her speed little over eight knots per
hour. Gradually and steadily the
ocean steamers increased in all these
particulars until the elimination was
reached in vessel built in 1885. She
has averaged speed of eighteen knots
in nine consecutive voyages between
Queenstown and New York, which is
equal to nearly twenty-one statute
miles per hour, or somewhat greater
than the average speed of the ordinary
train service ON any railway in the
world. Her engines indicate 14,00C
horsepower and are supplied with
steam from nine double-ended boilers,
each with eight furnaces. The tota,
consumption of coal is 300 tons pei
day, or twelve tons per hour, or 46t
pounds per minute; and if the whole
of the fires were raked together and
formed into one large fire there would
be forty-two tons of coal, or a mass
twenty feet long, twenty feet broat
and rather more than four feet high
fiercely burning. Besides the coal
1870 gallons of oil are used daily fol
journals, bearings, etc.
Passengers inhale with the sea ali
an excess of enthusiasm, and are ready
to become excited on the smallest pro
vocation. Is it a passing vesselp o
, a spouting whaleP Or a towering ice
, berg? 1t forms for the nonoe ain all
absorbing topic of interest and cage
, speculation. But even to those VIII,
[ can not be termed epicures, the chic
, concern and uppermost thought o
, each day is undoubtedly "What shal
we eat and what shall we drinkp'
The fresh breezes create hearty ap
petites, and with numbers of peopl
D the time is agreeably spent in the en-
: joyment of one meal or in the anticipa
ton of the next. Under these circun
q stances, what an important depart
ment is that under the charge Of tn
. chief steward!
!. The amount of provisions, groceries
: etc., on board at the time of sailing
g very large For a single passage t
v the westward one of the most note
steamers. with SAT cabin passenger
: and crew of 2S7 persons had, whe
: leaving Liverpool, the followin
4 quantities of provisions-12, 500 pound
y fresh beef, 760 pounds corned beef, 5
n 800 pounds mutton, $50 pounds laml
$50 pounds of veal, $50 pounds porl
1000 pounds fresh fish, 600 fowls, 81
J, chickens, 100 ducks, so geese,
turkeys, 200 brace grouse, Is ton pot
: toes, 80 hampers Vegetables, 220 quar-
: ice cream, 200 quarts milk and 11.5(
eggs.
In groceries alone there were ov'
Il 200 different articles, including If
q the round voyage of twenty-five day
;. $50 pounds tea, 1900 pounds coffe
!, ! 900 pounds white sugar, 800 pounC
u moist sugar, $50 pounds pulverize
sugar, 1.5oO pounds cheese. 2,0'
y pounds butter, $500 pounds ham an
= 1000 pounds bacon.-M Y Mail az
Express.
It The story of Ireland is best to
Q BY the following figures furnished
Mulhall, one of the most reliable st